Emily Williams has joined Barnes & Noble as international content manager for digital products, reporting to Patricia Arancibia, who was recently promoted to director, editorial & publisher relations for international content. She was most recently digital content producer for Publishers Marketplace, and we wish her the very best of luck in her new endeavors. At Triumph Books, Adam Motin has been promoted to managing editor, Noah Amstadter moves up to senior acquisitions editor, Jess Jordan has been promoted to associate editor, and current editorial director Don Gulbrandsen will move into an at-large role focusing on strategic initiatives, acquisitions and management […]
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Jonathan Lyons will join Folio Literary Management as executive director of subsidiary rights, and will also serve as the agency’s legal counsel on select issues, including contract, copyright, and estate law. He has been running his own agency and law practice. Molly Jaffa has been promoted to director of international rights, and will continue to develop her client list. Jennifer Doerr has joined Yale University Press as senior publicist. She previously held director of publicity positions at Macmillan Children’s and Skyhorse Publishing. At Random House Children’s, Chelsea Eberly was promoted to associate editor. In the UK, Bloomsbury is launching a new […]
When Larry Met Jeffrey
Bloomberg Business Week’s Brad Stone is working on a book about Amazon (not disclosed in the online version of next week’s cover story) and we should all hope that his editors help him root his narrative more in facts than the magazine piece. Here, you “big publishers” are sitting around “in high-rise offices” with “resplendent views”–while making the “screech of a small woodland creature being pursued by a jungle predator.” (Readers do not learn of Amazon Publishing NY’s space at 1350 Avenue of the Americas.) Book publishing is “an inefficient industry if there ever was one”–unlike, say, magazine publishing, where […]
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University of North Carolina Press director Kate Torrey will retire this summer after 23 years at the press. She first joined in 1989 as editor-in-chief and was promoted to director in 1992. A search committee has been formed as part of the selection process for the next director. Celeste Fine will join Sterling Lord Literistic on January 30 as an agent, focusing on health, science, food, business, and lifestyle topics. She will also manage foreign rights for the agency’s children’s and young adult list. Previously, Fine was svp, subsidiary rights director for Folio Literary Management. At Random House Children’s Books, […]
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Knopf evp, executive director of publicity, promotion and media relations Paul Bogaards penned the most talked about online item of the day, a Top 100 “Hierarchy of Book Publishing” with the same spirit as some of his inimitable Twitter posts. Bogaards told us by e-mail, “Consider the post a Valentine to our industry, which I love, and honestly, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.” Random House, S&S, Nosy Crow, and Robot Media were among the winners of the 2nd annual Publishing Innovation Awards, announced Monday night as part of the opening of Digital Book World. Full List At Harper UK, group […]
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Laurie Chittenden has joined Hyperion an editor-at-large, where she will will focus on acquiring a mix of commercial nonfiction and fiction book projects. She spent the past five years at William Morrow as executive editor, and returns to the publishing house where she began her career in 1993. Steve Kasdin has joined Curtis Brown as director of digital strategy, to “supervise their e-book program” and help “coordinate their dealings with publishers and etailers.” Kasdin was at Amazon on the Kindle team before relocating back to the East Coast. Meanwhile, the Jean Naggar Literary Agency has posted an open invitation to […]